We create space for great work
It started with a conversation on a video call in the spring of 2020 when a group of business leaders got together with a common goal: to figure out how to support their teams and tackle the challenges of remote work.
You know what they found out? Current management thinking about productivity is based largely on the assumption that employees are the problem. Our founders believed that this mindset absolves the organization of responsibility and hinders human potential.
Crafting a solution to address burnout and reduced output requires that we redefine our relationship with our technology in a way that promotes teamwork and a shared understanding of work. The idea for a digital work analytics platform built on a foundation of trust was born: Produce8.
The primary mission was to empower teams to leverage their data and visualize the nuances, obstacles, and possibilities of the digital workplace. Produce8 avoids passing judgment and refrains from dictating what is 'good' or 'bad', instead it enables individuals and teams the ability to study, measure, and create space for great work.
Produce8 is backed by the Top Down Ventures accelerator. We leverage their operational expertise in building and scaling technology businesses and are supported by their finance, legal, HR, facilities, leadership, and their ecosystem of technology advisors.
Meet our team
Joel Abramson
CEO and co-founder
Before founding Produce8, Joel was the CEO of Fully Managed and remains a Partner at Top Down Ventures. Joel is known for his empathetic and decisive leadership style, ensuring that everyone has a voice and instilling confidence in the team's direction.
Chris Day
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board
At the core of Top Down Ventures, Chris has always sought 'Blue Ocean' opportunities, and Produce8 stands out as a beacon in the B2B SaaS landscape. With the power of Foresight Fusion: Chris's ability to merge current trends with future potentials ensures that every strategy is ahead of its time.
Mark Scott
Co-founder and Director
Mark has been co-founder and CEO of several ventures (and adventures), including two market-defining companies in the managed services industry. The third horizon? Re-defining the future of work at Produce8.
Ryan McGinnis
VP of Product
Ryan is responsible for matching the big problem the company is tackling with a product that solves it and a story that explains it.
Geoff Affleck
Director of Engineering
Nobody works a whiteboard in a meeting like Geoff does. When he isn't organizing team BBQs, Geoff is on a mission to bring knowledge work into the 21st century by building a product that visualizes the invisible.
Liam Levesque
Lead UX Designer
Liam makes understanding our work habits fun and easy, by using his power to transform team sparks into reality. While people talk themselves in knots, he can quickly turn a discussion into visuals that create a shared understanding.
Our Values
transparency
Digital work is opaque and that's a problem.
To be successful people need visibility into the work happening within their teams but the traditional methods of getting it suck (progress reports, status meetings, etc). Produce8 was created to solve that problem. While the product’s roots are in making knowledge work transparent, as a company we’re also working to live this value from the start.
Mastery
We're currently a small team, but we're dedicated to being masters of our craft.
We achieve this by engaging with the broader community, sharing the tools and techniques we develop, and our love for the work that we do. We're a curious bunch focused on quality and innovation in our work.
sustainability
We believe that the future belongs to those who can operate without a negative impact on the world around them.
That’s more than just a business goal, it’s deeply personal. That means managing our externalities like our commuting carbon footprint, and building a product that helps other businesses achieve part of their sustainability goals by making it possible for their employees to work from anywhere — effectively. It also means ensuring our people can balance their lives so the work works for them. Most importantly our core operations cannot escape scrutiny. We need our app to be as resource-optimized as possible.
Made with love in Canada
Interested in joining us on our team?
We're building a culture that truly lives our values. If helping organizations work better together sounds interesting to you, you've come to the right place.
Create space for great work
Produce8 supports high-performing teams that are relentlessly pursuing the state of flow.
